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1 Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: Editorial Michael P. Robb To cite this article: Michael P. Robb (2012) Editorial, Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 15:4, ix-ix, DOI: / To link to this article: Published online: 18 Jul Submit your article to this journal Article views: 101 View related articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at Download by: [ ] Date: 26 December 2017, At: 08:18

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6 Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Official Journal of the Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language, and Hearing Volume 15, Number 4 December 2012 Downloaded by [ ] at 08:18 26 December 2017 Editorial Michael P. Robb PAPERS Explicit Phonological Knowledge of Educational Professionals 231 Jane Carroll, Gail Gillon, and Brigid McNeill Effects of Memory Aids on the Conversations of Elderly Chinese Persons 245 Wan-Zu Diana Chang and Michelle Bourgeois Presence of Stop Bursts and Multiple Bursts in Younger and Older Adults 265 Sabiha Parveen and Alexander M. Goberman Middle Ear Disease and Hearing Loss in School-Aged Indigenous Western 277 Australian Children Lydia Timms, Sally Grauaug, and Cori Williams ix v

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8 Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Editor-in-Chief Professor Michael P. Robb University of Canterbury, New Zealand Assistant to the Editor Amanda Lee Downloaded by [ ] at 08:18 26 December 2017 Associate Editors Dr. Tami Howe Associate Professor Joseph Kei University of Canterbury, New Zealand University of Queensland, Australia Dr. Kartini Ahmad Department of Audiology & Speech Sciences Faculty of Health Sciences University Kebangsaan, Malaysia Professor Larry Boles Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology University of the Pacific Stockton, California Dr. Chia-Ling Chen Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kweishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan Dr. Yang Chen Department of Speech-Language Pathology Duquesne University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Professor Alison Ferguson Speech Pathology Program University of Newcastle Callaghan, Australia Professor Fiona Gibbon Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences University College Cork Cork, Ireland Associate Professor Manwa Lawrence Ng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Editorial Board Professor Hyang Hee Kim Graduate Program in Speech-Language Pathology Yonsei University College of Medicine Seoul, Korea Professor Leonard LaPointe School of Communication Sciences & Disorders Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida Dr. Kathy Y. S. Lee Department of Otorhinolaryngology Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Professor Bruce Murdoch Centre for Neurogenic Communication Disorders Research School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Queensland, Australia Professor Malcolm McNeil Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania vii

9 viii ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING, vol. 15, no. 4 Downloaded by [ ] at 08:18 26 December 2017 Professor Bradley McPherson Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Professor Inger Moen Department of Linguistics & Scandinavian Studies University of Oslo Oslo, Norway Dr. Greg O Beirne Department of Communication Disorders University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand Professor Mark Onlsow Australian Stuttering Research Centre University of Sydney Lidcombe, Australia Professor S. R. Savithri All India Institute of Speech and Hearing Mysore, India Dr. Isamu Shibamoto Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences International University of Health and Welfare Tochigi, Japan Professor N. Shivashankar Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences Bangalore, India Dr. Adam Vogel Department of Otolaryngology University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia Professor Edwin Yiu Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

10 Editorial Downloaded by [ ] at 08:18 26 December 2017 Research in the areas of speech, language, and hearing disorders is often based on a previous understanding (or backdrop) of normal aspects of speech communication. The papers presented in this final issue of Volume 15 of the Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing represent research including both normal and disordered aspects of speech, language, and hearing. In the first paper by Carroll and her colleagues from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the researchers evaluated the phonological awareness skills of a range of New Zealand educators to gain insight into their ability to provide explicit phonemic awareness instruction within a classroom literacy program. They found New Zealand educators displayed varying understanding and use of phonological awareness in their work with children. In the second paper, Chang and Bourgeois, from the Ohio State University, examined the effects of memory books on conversations of Chinese persons with dementia. Memory books have previously been shown to be effective for improving the conversations between English-speaking persons with dementia and their caregivers. The researchers found that memory books, containing photos, pictures, and simple sentences in traditional Chinese were effective for improving the quality and quantity of conversations of Chinese persons with dementia of all severity stages living at home. The third paper, also from researchers in the USA, focuses on normal aspects of stop consonant production. Parveen and Goberman acoustically examined the presence of multiple bursts (MB) in various prevocalic stop consonant productions across younger and older healthy speakers. They found MBs to occur across both age groups although an age-related decrease in MBs was found for bilabial stops. This unique feature of stop consonant production may prove useful in the examination of speech production deficits in children and adults with developmental or acquired speech disorders. A large scale audiological study from Western Australia completes this issue. Timms and her associates from Curtin University performed a retrospective study of the occurrence of middle ear disease (MED) and hearing loss across age and season in urban and regional indigenous primary school children (aged 3 to 15 years) from Western Australia. Using the hearing and ear health data of a large cohort of school-aged urban and regional indigenous Australian children, the researchers identified instance of MED and associated hearing loss. The occurrence of MED in indigenous school-aged children in Western Australia appears to have decreased when compared to past studies. However, the proportions remain high in both populations, and a large proportion of children also experience hearing loss. Michael P. Robb Editor-in-Chief Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Volume 15, Number 4, p. ix Copyright 2012 Plural Publishing, Inc. ix

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